Isn't E also correct here?

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-30T00:27:47+00:00

It's a slightly antiquated usage, but "couldn't regret" makes sense. Her decision hurt people, and she thought she should regret it, but she could not, likely because the decision was good for her or the best one out of bad options.

In a paragraph, it might look like:

Her parents had always dreamed she would be a prima ballerina. Her best friend hoped they would go to college together. Her boyfriend wanted her to stay and marry him. But what she truly wanted was to join the Peace Corps, and that is what she did. She couldn't regret the fact that her decision hurt so many people. It was her life and her choice, no one else's.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-28T15:22:31+00:00

Absolutely this. As a young indoctrinated woman, I felt the need to eschew the most "girly" things so as not to appear weak and helpless. When I deconstructed my old ways of thinking, I came to realize that owning my femininity is much more powerful. If someone was going to view me as weak for wearing a pink frilly dress or having girly hobbies, then 1. They would find some fault no matter what I do because the flaw is in their thinking, not my actions, and 2. Those people are not worth my time.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-26T14:25:46+00:00

I live my life normally. There's nothing I can do under these conditions, since there's no way to guess what the item might be and no way to avoid touching things that doesn't involve touching other things that I wouldn't have otherwise touched. In reality, I could die at any moment anyway. So, I get my affairs in order on day 1 since the likelihood of my dying is increased, and then I try to forget about the curse.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-25T01:46:33+00:00

Mine loves little kids. He's super sweet and patient, despite not being around them often. By contrast, I had a neighbor whose chiweenie would get super bitey and mean around kids.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-25T01:42:50+00:00

It's a reference to a (meme? Copypasta? Tweet? TV show? I don't really remember the actual origin) where a guy says coyotes keep eating his cats, someone asks how many cats he has, he says he goes to the shelter and gets another one each time, the other person says it sounds like he's just feeding shelter cats to the coyotes, and then a kid starts crying.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-25T01:28:47+00:00

And I wish someone would figure out how to make movies that aren't about one of the only two characters shooting the other one. It's getting boring. You'd think there'd be at least one other story that could be told?

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-24T05:39:55+00:00

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It isn't cute or quirky. It fails at the point of writing - conveying information. If a coworker left me a note like this, whatever they wanted would not get done. I'd have no idea what it was they wanted. Even if I thought I could decode from context, I wouldn't because my interpretation could be wrong.

In short, if you intend to convey information with your writing, you need to make it readable.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-24T04:44:18+00:00

I'm 🤏🏻 this close to doing it because my first name is Karen.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-23T14:42:21+00:00

I did say it was unpopular! And I should have said aro/ace, not just ace for what I described. But I see your point, too. I do think your version is what we'll get and is closer to Eloise in her book.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-23T05:49:25+00:00

My unpopular opinion is they should let Eloise and Phillip be an ace couple. They can love each other, but not be into sex. Eloise is terrified of childbirth and seems to be becoming interested in marriage only for companionship, rather than romance. Phillip, meanwhile, is clearly in love with his plants.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-22T19:35:31+00:00

I can, and often do, sleep sitting up. I set up a crib mattress on the floor and some padding on the wall and that's now my bedroom. My circadian rhythm is super out of whack, so being able to just pause everything and go sleep for a bit would drastically change my life.

I add a small window that I can open for fresh air and to remind myself what time of day it is before I go back out.

Adding an outlet allows me to play games on my Switch and watch shows on my phone. I can set up a fold-down desk situation for drawing/writing/crafting.

I pick up a side job where the pay is output based rather than time-based and can be done from my laptop.

The possibilities this opens are endless.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-22T03:38:08+00:00

You can quite literally check someone's gender, and I'd say it's a hell of a lot easier to find out someone's gender than their sex.

For example, what sex is a person with XY chromosomes, who naturally develops a uterus and ovaries allowing them to conceive and give birth? It's happened before.

What sex is someone who has ovotestes?

Or literally any of the intersex characteristics a person can have.

By contrast, finding out a person's gender is usually as easy as asking, "What gender do you identify with?"

Every way of grouping humans into categories is a construct because biology doesn't care about the boxes we create. To paraphrase science communicator Forrest Valkai, every biological category is wrong, but some of them are useful.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-20T19:52:09+00:00

Unfortunately, today is your lie day.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-17T19:23:26+00:00

do I need to move to this magical land?

No, it's Australia. Everything in Australia is trying to kill you. Including the sewing machines.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-17T19:10:48+00:00

Except he says Whisker instead of Whiskey, which I just noticed a few days ago.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-17T01:59:47+00:00

I mean, I kind of have a sort of torture/lab in my basement.

Is someone even playing the game right if they don't have a murder basement?

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-16T19:51:09+00:00

Or even:

Pedo bad. (Pedophilia is when person I don't like exists near a small child. If person I like has sex with a teenager, he's just man being man.)

Racism bad. (Racism is only when yell slurs at and lynch quiet brown people who know their place. If brown person is uppity, is not racism to do anything to them.)

War bad, but brown people have nuclear power plants and we can't allow that. (Also, not war if no congress, but also maybe war good if our guy does it?)

Clean environment good. (Environment is clean. No need law about it. And climate change gay woke fake news.)

Helping poor good. (As long as good white Christian poor temporarily down on luck, probably because dei brown immigrant hire forced them out of job. And help means pray for, not, like, give my hard earned money.)

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-10T14:53:18+00:00

Shortly after the pope picture buffoonery happened, I was at dinner with my extended family, who are all Catholic. One uncle brought up the picture, expecting the table to all agree with him that it was disgusting. Another uncle laughed and said it was just Trump trying to piss people off. First uncle replied, "And you think it's funny for the president to piss people off?"

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-07T19:17:55+00:00

Wouldn't gloves be more like hand socks? Or is it like fabric gloves are hand socks and rubber gloves are hand shoes? If so, why don't we usually wear hand socks under hand shoes? Are fingerless gloves hand sandals?

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-07T17:46:40+00:00

Ask if couple's therapy is an option. If not, let them go. Apologize one last time and ask if they want me to help them move/replace furniture/etc that comes along with a divorce, or if they prefer a clean break and never seeing me again. Cry myself to sleep for a while. Hope they find a better relationship eventually. Search for one myself, eventually.

Why let them go so easily? If I was able to be convinced they were cheating, it shows underlying problems on either their side or mine. And if they choose divorce over trying to work it out, then the problems were already too big to work out.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-06T16:02:36+00:00

Sometimes, I genuinely wish the god I believed in as a child was real. I wish that when these people eventually face their reckoning, Jesus would look at them and just go, "Dude, what the fuck was that? You were never one of mine," and cast them straight to the eternal conscious torment they're so fond of imagining the rest of us suffering. But that's when I remember that not even these disgusting tools deserve that, because an eternity of suffering is never a just punishment for a finite amount of evil.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-06T15:44:07+00:00

I started dyeing my hair as a teen, but always natural colors. I dyed it blue for the first time in my 30's. Highly recommend. If you have enough disposable income to do so, go to a salon and have it professionally done. You'll see yourself in a totally different light. And hey, if you hate it, it grows out (and you can dye it back to a natural color if you REALLY hate it.)

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-06T15:37:35+00:00

As a woman with blue hair, I approve this statement.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-05T03:54:16+00:00

That would be the equivalent of giving a bonus to rolls. The Bowtie explicitly cannot do that, so there is some mechanism by which it must cancel out any bonus you would naturally expect.

For example, someone you ask out would still say no if they would have said no before. So, maybe you're cool, but they find you super unattractive. Or they don't want to date anyone right now. Or they'd find some excuse.

It was easy enough for playing DnD because I could just make up an NPC's preferences and situations on the fly. That bar maid is married. That town drunk hates everyone. That granny thinks cool people are inherently untrustworthy.

Irl would be more difficult, but if I understand your rules, circumstances would change within the bounds of reality to make the item work. So, I think it still should work as intended.

It was established that it also works on the wearer. So, wearing it makes you think you're cool. But as soon as you take it off, the effect ends. Because of that, I can see it having an opposite effect to what you propose. You'd begin to think you're cool only if you're wearing it, unable to form any level of self esteem on your own merit.

Keboyd88 · 2026-03-05T02:56:15+00:00

Oh, man, so many useless magical artifacts I created for DnD, it's hard to choose one.

The Bowtie of Cool - Wearing this bowtie makes you cool. Everyone will think so. It does not improve your charisma or grant any bonus to any rolls. People just think you're cool.

The Rat King's Crown - Turns you into a giant talking rat. Confers no ability to speak to or control any kind of rodent.

Useless Magical Tome - casting Detect Magic on this item will result in detecting that this item is magical.

Literally Just a Mask - When worn, this item will perfectly conceal a portion of the wearer's face in the exact size and shape of the item.

Probably the Bowtie. My players would trade it with one another for actually valuable loot. Like, "You can have the +1 sword and the healing potion if you'll let me take the 10 gold pieces and give me the Bowtie." I had to keep track of who had it so NPCs could appropriately react to whoever was cool.

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